DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
COUNCIL BECOMES A WORLD FORCE
Committee on Peace and Arbitration,
which unites its efforts with those of
other national organizations. The
Committee on Legislation makes a
critical study of national, state and
local legislation and submits its reco-
mendations to the Council Sections.
It also participates in the legislative
efforts of other national bodies. Civic
issues are studied and furthered by a
committee on Civic and Communal Af-
fairs, which has been very effective
in promoting closer co-operation
among Communal organizations. A
Speakers' Bureau arranges for a list
of speakers chosen from the Council's
membership .
By ESTELLE M. STERNBERGER,
Executive Secretary Council of Jewish Women.
inception, the Coun-
Sinn its very
cil of Jewish W'omen has been the
sellor and companion of the
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mother or girl net her foot
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onthe steamer bound for a new kshnow_
otins gave her the assuring
that a representative of the
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Council of Jewish Women would be
ling her at Ellis Island. It meant
witi, in the event of any difficulty, she
atha
would not be alone nd f riendless. She
5ould be aided in a solv ing her prob-
lems, by those who had often solved
them for other immigrants.,
The Council of Jewish W omen has
not been content to wait until the im-
migrant reached American shores.
There have recently arisen so many
distressing and difficult situations that
the Council has found it inoperative to
begin its work in Europe. According-
ly, in the Spring of 1921, a Council
Cnit of four women was sent abroad,
5 ,, torn from its World
Europe was
War. that it required the sustaining
strength of some body or organiza-
tion to restore a service that it had
once rendered. Refugees, by the thou-
sods, were pouring from one country
into another, their needs for sym-
pathy and counsel unmet. Their eyes
were turned to the shores that spelt
premise for hundreds of thousands of
unfortunates. They were surging
towards the cities of Western Eu-
ro pe, which they regarded as gates of
ho pe, that opened on the roads of
freedom, the steamship lanes to the
land of America.
Reconstruction Work.
and for these refugees that
It was
the Council Unit labored. Steamship
companies and community leaders in
Holland Belgium we re met in success.
ion conferences. Out of them resulted
a MOP of European Council organi-
sations, who undertook to render the
refugee and immigrant a service like
that of the Council of Jewish Women
in the port cities of America. Classes
of instruction and recreation were in-
stituted, by the members of the Unit,
to initiate the educational and social
welfare programs of these Councils.
The ablest women of these splendid
Jewish communities responded to the
call for leaders to guide this work. As
a result of this work, European Coun-
cils of Jewish Women are now to be
found in Antwerp, Belgium; Paris,
France; Amsterdam, Rotterdam and
The Hague, Holland; Lodz, Poland;
Geneva, Switzerland; Riga, Latvia;
and Trieste, Italy.
The crowning achievement of all
these efforts abroad, has just occured.
The Council of Jewish Women invited
the Jewish woolen's organizations of
Europe and America to meet in a Con-
ference at Vienna, May 6 to 11. This
conference discussed the problems af-
fecting the transmigrant woman and
child; the need of educational and re-
ligious work in communities that lack
institutions and organizations for this
communal service; and the possibili-
ties of co-operaiton on the part of Jew-
ish women's organizations in Europe
and America in solving these problems
and meeting these needs.
The delegation of the Council of
Jewish Women included the follow-
ing: Mrs. Alexander Kohut of New
York City, chairman of the committee
on reconstruction; Mrs. Nathaniel E.
Harris of Bradford, Pa., chairman of
the committee on foreign relations;
Mrs. Harry Sternberger of New York
City, executive secretary of the Coon-
ril ofJewish Women and Miss Cecilia
Rarovsky, of the national department
of Immigrant aid, Council of Jewish
Women. Mrs. Elinor Sachs-Barr, of
New York City, who has been serving
as secretary of foreign work, directed
European arrangements for the con-
ference at Vienna.
Emigrants Informed of Law.
With the enactment of the recent
ferretage Law governing the admis-
sion of immigrants into America, con-
siderable confusion confronted the
prospective European emigrant. To
spare emigrants the disappointments
and hardships of those that have come
to the ports of America only
onl to b
forced to return to Europe,
' pe because
the quota of their respective coun-
tries had been filled, the Department
if Immigrant Aid of the Council of
impish Women has distributed in Eu-
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Should Know." The Council antici-
pates that many emigrants will in the
future be more cautious in making ar-
rangements to leave their native lands.
In view of the tendency of the many
emigrants to settle in Cuba, Mexico
and the countries of South America,
in the face of these limited quotas, the
Council of Jewish Women has been
making a very careful study of de-
velopments in these newer destinations
of the unfortunate European multi-
tudes. At the recent Pan-American
Conference, at Baltimore, which was
attended by women of every Latin-
American country the Council of Jew-
ish Women issued a letter to these
delegates, bespeaking their interest
and sympathy in the problems of those
who might seek a haven in their lands.
Moreover, to encourage thoughtful
discussion and consideration of the
immigrant problem, the Department
of Immigrant Aid of the Council of
Jewish Women issues a periodical,
"The Immigrant." Women of the
Council, its national Akers and local
leaders, authorities on the immigra-
tion question and observers contribute
to its columns.
The Woman in Rural Communities.
An increasing number of Jewish
women are now resident in the rural
7ommunities. The farmers are often
appealed directly to the Council of
Jewish Women to extend its work to
their communities, to guide the women
in a program that would afford them
newer visions and increased oppor-
tunities for useful service and effort.
Every essential feature of rural activ-
ity and interest has been introduced
through a national committee on Work
Among Women on Farms. This na-
tional rural committee functions
through state chairmen; field repre-
sentatives who conic in direct contact
with every rural family; and local or-
ganizations that have been effected
by it. Active work among our women
in rural communities, is now being
promoted in the states of Massachu-
setts, Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania. These local
organizations carry on every possible
nhase of the Council's program of re
ligious, educational, social welfare and
civic work.
Through "The Jewish Women," the
official nuarterly of the Council of
,Iewish Women, the Jewish women of
the world have been afforded a new
medium for the expression of their
ideas. Its columns have contained
contributions from the women of Eu-
rope, as well as from the American
woman. An interchange of thought
has resulted that will, eventually,
lead to a better understanding of the
problems and aspirations of Jewish
womanhood everywhere. it is a jour-
nal of world news, and thought that
will offer posterity a better apprecia-
tion of the status and achievements
of women in our generation. In its
columns have already appeared such
articles as "The Jewish Women of
England" by Gertrude Spielman,
Chairman of the Union of Jewish
Women, London; "The Jewish Women
of Holland" by Caroline Wiisenbeek-
Franker. vice president of the Coun-
cil of Jewish Women, Amsterdam:
and "The Jewish Women of Latvia"
by Mrs. A. Salkind. president of the
Council of Jewish Women, Riga; and
by the prominent women of Germany,
Austria, Switzerland and France.
Council's Educational Work.
The most recent contribution of the
Council of Jewish Women to the field
of educational undertakings, has been
its Preparations of ;'An Introduction
to Jewish Music." This is a most
comprehensive work and receives
thorough study in the Study Circles of
the Council Sections. It has been made
nossible through its National Commit-
tee on Religion. Educational films
are distributed by the National Com-
mittee on blind. under whose auspices
us extensive Sight Saving Campaign
is annually promoted throughout the
country. In this campaign, factories.
schools, fraternal groups women's
clubs and municinal hoards of health
co-onerate with the Council Sections.
A similar film service is proposed by
the department of Immigrant Aid and
the Committee on Public Health. Lit-
erature on questions of war and peace
la distributed And suggested by the
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A committee on religion suggests
topics of study for study circles. Its
most recent subject of study is a
course on Jewish music. It has also
offered suggestions for the study of
the Prayerbook, Bible Jewish History,
The Jewish Calendar and the Holy-
days, Ceremonials and Modern Jew-
ish I,iterature. A special Sabbath,
known as "Council Sabbath," has been
designated, on which occasion every
pulpit is asked to devote its theme to
the ideals and achievements of Jew-
ish womanhood. In most instances,
this message is presented by a woman,
an officer or member of the Council of
Jewish Women. A committee on Re-
ligious schools establishes religious
schools in communities where no con-
gregations exist or in city districts
that are unprovided for.
In order to interest the young men
nod women of a community of Jewish
and civic effort, the national commit-
tee on junior auxiliaries fosters the
establishment of junior sections. The
work of these junior sections is in har-
mony and co-operation with that of
the senior council sections.
Since the Denver Triennial in 1920
during the presidency of Miss Rose
Brenner of Brooklyn, the Council has
increased its national membership
from 36,000 to 50,000. A very active
campaign is now being conducted in
order to report a membership of pos-
sibly 60,000 at the next triennial in
November, which will be held at St.
Louis.
Devoted to the ideals of faith and
humanity, the Council of Jewish Wom-
en labors in the conviction that its
work and the need for its service will
enlarge even as the bonds of faith and
humanity, with each generation, are
adjusted to larger horizons and ideals.
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Everett K
Edw. Kerrey
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